Wadding waste machine



Patented Jan. 29, 1867.

G. COX. WADDING WASTE MAGHINE.

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GEORGE COX, OF READING, PENNSYLVANIA, :ASSGNOR T0 F.1'WILLCOX AND G.- L.JENKINS.

Letten Patent N0. 61,519, ma .Tamm 29, 1867.

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T0 ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN.:

Be it known that I, GEORGEv COX, of Reading, Berks county, Pennsylvania,have invented a certain new and useful Wedding-Waste Machine; and I dohereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact descriptionof the operation and construction of the same, reference being had tothe annexed drawings, forming part hereof, and to the letters ofreference marked thereon, in which drawings Figure 1 is a longitudinalvertical section.

Figure 2, a plan of the machine. l y

In wadding-nills, where what is known as cotton-waste is employed in themaking of wedding, there is a waste, even from the waste thus employed,and it is to utilize this waste of waste that my machine is adapted.

l To enable others skilled in the art te make and use myinventien, Iwillproceed to describe its construction and mode of operation. v

In the drawings, A is n cast-iron frame, made dust-tight by a lining ofwood. The frame is about iive feet long, four feet h igh, and thirtyinches wide, the width being governed by the width of wadding intendedto be produced. B is avpicker cylinder, which consists of an iron shaftcovered with wooden strips through which are inserted steel teeth a setabout half an inch apart, and projecting outwards about an inch beyondthe surface of the strips. C is an endless apron .running upon the tworollers D and E. The waste b eing placed on the apron C isfcd into thepickerthrough thcrollers F and G.- Power is applied to the cylinder Bby, meausof a driving-pulley represented by the crank l, fig. 2.` 'Onone end of the cylinder shaft 'the belt R connects a pulley l011 theopposite end of the cylinder shaft with another pulley I of about eightinches diameter on the end of shaft J, which carries at its opposite enda cegwheel, K, of about three inchesA diameter, which gears in-to alarger cog-wheel L of about fourteen inches diameter on` the shaft M,which carries at its opposite end the bevel cog-wheel N, of about lfourinches diameter, which gears into the cog-wheel O, of about fo'ur inchesdiameter, on

the shaft P, whichcarries at its opposite end the bevel cog-wheel Q, ofabout two and a half inches diameter,

which gears into the bevelrcogwheel R, of about six inches diameter, onthe lower feed-roller G. Motion is imparted to the apron C by means ofbelt S. The rollers F G run in open boxes, as shown in iig. 1, beingheld down by means of weighted levers T. U is a bonnet or hinged lid, bymeans of which the cylinder is completely shut in at top. W is aninclined passage, open at bottom, down which slides the waste drawn inYby the picker cylinder B. X is a case 'or drawer placed below the feedrollers F G, into which drawer the sand and dirt drop. My machine, whenin operation, is placed in the card-room, elevated aboutn foot above thedoor, so that the same endless apron that takes the web from thc cardingmachines shall run under the inclined passage'W, and take also the wastefrom this machine. Itwill be observed that the belt VH is crossed. N ow,when the teeth of the picker cylinder become bent from use, this beltmay be applied straight, so that, without .any change in the gearing,the direction of motion of the picker cylinder is'rev-erscd. The pulleyI and the bevel'cog-wheels K and Qare removable at pleasure, and .whenit is desired to accelerate or retard the motion of the feed,l a smalleror larger pulley, as the case may be, is substituted' for the'pulley I,and a larger or smaller bevel-wheel is substituted either-*forthe'cog-wheel Q or for the cog-wheel K.`

I have thus specified the particular gearing employed, 'because it. isthe best adapted to give that regular v slow motion which is requiredfor the feed, and at thc same time permit to-be made thechaugesrmentioned by which that motion may be accelerated or retarded,and the direction of motion of tliepicker cylinder reversed at pleasure.

Having thus described my invention, I claim,.and desire to secure byLetters Patent- I 1. The combination of the picker cylinder B,'enclosedpassage W, feed rollers F G, endless apron C, and

drawer X, or their equivalents respectively, in the manner and for thepurpose substantially as shown and described. v I

2. The parts last mentioned in combination with the gearing for givingmotion to the feed, substantially as shown and described.

` GEORGE 00X.

Witnesses:

' J. E. SHAW,

Gnoaen E. BUGKLEY.

